Arturbain International Student Competition

The theme of the 2011 edition of the Arturbain International Student Competition was “Putting forgotten urban voids to good use”.

Following a recent tradition, the Pantheon Institute Architectural Design Studio Course asked its students to participate in the competition as the initial large scale urban analysis and design exercise of the course program. The students were asked to investigate a series of urban voids extending from the areas surrounding the Colosseum to the architectural design project site in the Celio neighbourhood.

We are proud to announce that two of our project teams from the Spring 2011 semester were shortlisted by an international jury of experts in the group of the thirty finalists who will compete for the Arturbain Award. The winners will be announced in Paris this coming May.

We would like to congratulate the entire Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 student group for their excellent work at both the urban and architectural scales.

Our special congratulations go to GROUP 3 - Angela DeGeorge (U. Mass.), Michelle Greene(Penn State), George Konel (Penn State) and Benton Mahan (Penn State) for their proposal "Reinterpreting Boundaries: Merging Social and Historical Layers"; and to GROUP 7 - Matt Graham (Penn State), Kristen Massenburg (Penn State), Susan Mollasalehi (Woodbury) and Blaze Rzewnicki (Woodbury) for their proposal "Communal Thread".

Professor David Sabatello